Invoice 19, which units the minimal working age in Quebec at 14, is frightening widespread dissatisfaction amongst entrepreneurs within the Mauricie area, who’re already struggling to seek out staff and are actually having to put off their youthful staff.
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Campsites corresponding to Tenting Parc de la Péninsule in Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan shall be pressured to put off a number of staff as soon as the brand new regulation comes into pressure. Most of those staff are employed guarding the arcades, the miniature golf course or as lifeguards.
We see the identical at Aquaparc H2O in Trois-Rivières, the place a dozen lifeguards and upkeep staff underneath 14 are employed.
A number of staff are inevitably laid off.
“I would like another person, in any other case we must shut the sights,” stated Sophie Bellemare, managing director of Aquaparc H2O.
Whereas recruiting workers is presently troublesome, changing a dozen staff is more likely to be a problem.
An exception is that kids underneath the age of 14 are allowed to work in a household enterprise, however provided that it has fewer than ten staff. The daddy and proprietor of the 1200 Degrés firm in Trois-Rivières, François Proulx, will subsequently have to forestall his 13-year-old son from persevering with to work within the firm.
“He’s very disillusioned. He seemed ahead to coming to work. There may be completely no proof that staff’ security is healthier at work in an organization with fewer than ten staff or on a farm. We all know farms may be harmful,” Mr Proulx stated, including that as an alternative the federal government ought to guarantee younger individuals are working in secure locations.
The identical applies to one of many companions of Enseignes FX Boisvert, who can now not provide his 13-year-old son a job after the regulation got here into pressure. “It’s a bit flat to inform them that they are going to now not be capable of assist and get a little bit wage per week,” defined Stéphane Bellerive.
Mr Proulx has acquired quite a few messages in current days from household enterprise homeowners and oldsters who’re involved and indignant and are demanding explanations from Labor Secretary Jean Boulet.